Big darts night for city Arena

THE McCoy’s Premier League Darts will feature 10 players under a new format, with Michael van Gerwen, Wes Newton and Robert Thornton to make their debuts in the tournament.

A change will see the field expanded this year as they compete across 15 nights in the UK and Ireland’s biggest arenas, stopping off at Sheffield Arena a week on Thursday.

The 10 will face each other once over the opening nine weeks of the tournament, over the best of 12 legs, before the bottom two players in the league table are relegated following the ninth league night.

n Doncaster has sold more than 500 tickets for their Darts Night of Champions this Friday.